How the Reincarnation Seat Destroys the Original - Chapter 7



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Episode 7. The Saint in the Ashes (1).

“You promised! You have to show it to me first!”

“Anyway, in this world, even if you watch the side story, you’re the only one who will understand.”

“I rather like it!”

The face of Mabel that he was facing was filled with a bright light of joy. For some reason, Kael felt it was difficult to face that face.

It’s a spin-off.

… I guess I should think about it slowly.

He concluded that and then for a moment, he remembered the bright light that Mabel had seen. It was ‘divine power’.

“Now let’s move on to your story. The light that just cured your bitten tongue. It was divine power, right?”

At his already confident voice, the child nodded, moving his floating legs back and forth.

I was surprised to see that the author who created this world was the person right in front of me, and I had something I wanted to ask him, but I couldn’t ask him properly, so I unknowingly used the divine power that I had been hiding well even during my life in the temple, which was no different from confinement.

“Children with divine powers are strictly controlled under the temple. How did they escape from the temple?”

“The temple doesn’t know that I have divine powers. There was no priest capable enough to detect my divine powers.”

It was said that the divine power was intentionally hidden.

Kael didn’t feel particularly moved by the fact that his power was hidden. In this world, the stronger the ‘power’, the easier it was to hide.

To put it simply:

A person with a power of 1 does not perceive the power of a person with a power of 2, and a person with a power of 10 does not perceive the power of a person with a power of 100.

This story soon implied that Mabel’s divine powers were greater than those of anyone in the temple where the child was.

“Why did you hide your divine power?”

“That’s right. Even if you have divine power in this world, an orphan like me without a guardian will just be used. It was also shown in the Han.Jeom.Jae episode.”

Among the many episodes in the original work, there was one where the ‘Last Saint’ appeared.

In this world where gods are losing their power.

The saint, born with strong divine powers, was one of the many children abandoned in the temple.

The child who was praised as a saint was locked up in the temple for her entire life, had her divine powers exploited, and was used as a tool to give birth to another saint, dying a miserable and lonely death deep in the temple. That was the episode.

“Just looking at the state of the temple, I knew that I would become like that. So I didn’t use even a single bit of divine power!”

“For something like that, you wrote it too easily just now.”

“It was in front of Kael.”

“Because we are the same reincarnation?”

“Hmm. Rather than that, I think that even if they found out that I have divine powers, they would treat me no differently than they do now.”

Actually, I wrote it without knowing it!

Mabel added playfully, laughing.

“Is that divine power an ability obtained from God?”

“That’s a story that belongs to the group we dealt with. It’s still a secret.”

Kael couldn’t tell whether the reincarnation in front of him was smart or stupid, as he slid away like a loach.

Considering that he hid his divine powers for several years in a short episode that didn’t take up much of the original work, he doesn’t seem stupid.

“The divine power will continue to be hidden.”

“Of course it will!”

When the answer came back, Kael nodded and opened the book he had closed. In this way, the two of them were able to reach the temple of Janus three days after leaving the Damie family after passing the second village.

As the chariot stopped in front of the temple, a man dressed in pure white robes approached the chariot.

Priest of the Temple of Janus.

The priests of this world are divided into four types.

Starting with the lowest level, the apprentice priest, then the numerous general priests, then the high-ranking priests, and finally the high priests who hold the highest power in the temple.

It was easy to recognize their positions.

The brooch, which had a pattern symbolizing the god worn on the monk’s robe, was made of copper, silver, and gold.

As Kael and Mabel, dressed in pure white as when they set off from the Damier estate, got out of the carriage, a common priest wearing a silver brooch was about to bow his head, but stopped when he saw Mabel.

“… Ashes?”

At that small whisper, her small body momentarily froze.

Ashes.

It was a word that referred to herself, more often than her name, Mabel.

?Hey, ashes. What the hell is that? Wash yourself and live.?

?A pile of ash!!! I told you to clean it up, but you cleaned it up with your body? Oh my, it’s my fault for leaving it to a dirty thing like you.?

The reason I was able to endure all the humiliations was because I had read the original. It was because I knew that if I couldn’t endure the present, I would experience something worse.

Would it have been easier if I had no memories of my past life?

If I didn’t know anything, would I have just accepted it as my fate? I held on, and held on, even while thinking that.

But repeated neglect and contempt were engraved in my memory and body, causing me to instinctively shrink back and create a desire to escape this space.

“I guess the temple of Janus considers it polite to stand people upright.”

If it weren’t for Kael’s voice, so cold that it woke her up, Mabel might have run back into the carriage.

“Oh, I’m sorry. I know you… I was surprised and made a rude remark. I hope you can take your first step.”

“May your last breath be in peace.”

Since he was able to gather information about the level of greeting, Kael’s reply flowed out smoothly.

“What should I prepare for you?”

Glance. The priest’s gaze briefly fell on Mabel, then turned to Kael with a smile.

“I would like you to provide a personal prayer room and prayer book.”

When I went to the private prayer room, I asked why I needed a prayer book. The reason was simple.

In the temple, countless children were abandoned and taken in.

Among them, there were often children with outstanding beauty, and there were rich people who secretly bought such children.

Since the temple, which valued the image of purity and innocence, could not allow the act of selling a child taken into the arms of a god to be revealed on land, the excommunication documents were paid in the name of a prayer and the money was paid in the name of an offering.

“How much are you thinking of donating?”

The priest’s hands came together in front of him, asking a subtle question.

Are you asking me to pay first?

Kael clicked his tongue inwardly at the sight of this behavior that allowed him to glimpse the state of the temple that was even more rotten than he had thought, and took out the pouch. The priest’s mouth fell open as he opened the pouch, which was heavy even without checking the inside.

“God will bless you. Could you please wait a moment?”

With that, the priest left for a moment, and Mabel, who was right behind him, asked.

“Can I go inside the carriage now?”

“Wait outside while I go to the prayer room.”

“…Can’t I just go in?”

“From now on, you will be ‘Mabel Du Damier’ and not a pile of ashes. Don’t be afraid of such insignificant things.”

“That’s because Kael doesn’t know!!!”

Although the child let out a loud voice for a moment, Kael simply remained silent.

Mabel, who was at a loss, eventually followed the priest who returned and told her that a private prayer room and prayer books were ready and that he would show her around.

Feeling the presence of people following him, Kael slowly looked around the inside of the temple.

As can be seen from the greetings exchanged, Janus was the god of beginnings and endings.

Inside the temple was a large clock, and at each end of it were two doors, one open and one closed.

“If you come in here, there is a prayer prepared for you.”

Within. He stood in front of the private prayer room and turned to Mabel and said.

“Wait here.”

“really…?”

Just like when they first stopped by the village, the child’s purple eyes shook anxiously. Kael met those eyes and opened his mouth again.

“Do you remember what the priest just said?”

“I remember that much… .”

“The prayers are inside, and when I come out of the prayer room, you will become ‘Mabel Du Damier’ as I said before, so wait quietly.”

The child nodded slowly but surely at the words that implied that from now on, you are not a pile of ashes locked in a room in the temple of Janus, but Mabel du Damier.

“It won’t take long.”

As their conversation ended, the priest opened the door to the private prayer room, and Kael stepped inside.

The door closed behind him, and inside the small prayer room he found himself face to face with a statue of the god Janus.

The original Janus god he knew was called the ‘Two-Faced Man’, meaning he had faces on both sides. But the Janus god here wore a half-mask split vertically, and held a staff carved with clocks and doors.

“The concept is clear once again.”

In front of the cushion placed for prayer, an envelope was prepared. Kael bent down, picked up the envelope, and walked up to the stone statue. He then looked up at the statue.

Cloudy purple eyes that don’t fit in with the sacred space.

Kael, who is said to be a stone statue, looks into the eyes of a god.

“God Janus. Can you talk to me?”

Kael, who had not hesitated to blurt out words that would have shocked those who worshipped the god Janus, sat on the platform where the statue was placed, leisurely checked the inside of the envelope, and called out to the god again.

“At least make your voice heard. If you can show your face, that’s fine too.”

His appearance, which was closer to provocation than prayer, showed no sign of faith at all.

/This is ridiculous./

As if speaking from inside a cave.

As a deep, resonant voice echoed in his head, a curve formed on Kael’s lips that could be called a proper smile for the first time since his return.

/Where is the god who would show up at such a call?/

“Here it is.”

/How… arrogant./

Even though I haven’t seen its appearance.

Kael, leaning back against the statue with his arms folded, answered the god Janus’s question, and did not hesitate to show an action that befitted the god’s reputation of being arrogant.

“Thank you for the compliment.”

/I have nothing to talk to you about./

“No, there must be something. For example… a story about the soul of another world that you reincarnated into.”

/… How do you know that kid?/

Kael shook the papers he was holding at the answer that came with a short silence.

The document fluttering in his hand was the excommunication document. At the very bottom of the document was clearly stamped the seal of the god Janus, along with the words, “Mabel is excommunicated.”

I hope that the god who doesn’t even show his face will see this document.

“The child you reincarnated. She will soon become my daughter.”

How is it? Are you ready to talk now?